This is a sample of resources available in Auraria Library and on the Internet for doing research about smoking cessation. These resources will be useful to people looking for help to stop smoking as well as those wishing to provide assistance. Smoking cessation is an interdisciplinary area that includes health, medicine, psychology, behavioral sciences, and sociology. The most effective and complete research will encompass inquiries in multiple subject areas, using multiple search terms.

Some of the most useful search terms in addition to "smoking cessation" are "nicotine addiction", "tobacco use", "cigarette smoking" and "smoking control". (The links here go to the Auraria Library catalog Skyline.) Additional information of interest will be found by searching "smokeless tobacco", "passive smoking" and "secondhand smoke".

Article databases

Use the databases under Health and Wellness Management, such as:

• Health and Wellness Resource Center,
• Health Education Assets Library,
• Health Reference Center Academic and
• Health Source: Consumer Edition

Internet resources

• The Foundation for a Smokefree America http://www.anti-smoking.org/
• Tobacco.org http://www.tobacco.org/
• American Lung Association http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=33484
• American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/SPC/spc_0.1.asp
• Giving Up Smoking http://www.givingupsmoking.co.uk/

Local Smoking Cessation Resources

• Student Health Center at Auraria http://www.mscd.edu/student/resources/health/advocates/Tobacco.htm
• Colorado Quitline http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/pp/tobacco/quitline.asp

Take a quiz to learn about the reasons you smoke

• Familydoctor.org http://familydoctor.org/296.xml
• Online guide to quitting http://www.smokefree.gov/guide/nicotine_addiction.asp

Get some help in deciding if you want to quit

• Smoking: steps to help you break the habit http://familydoctor.org/618.xml
• Benefits of quitting http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=33568

Get some ideas about what to do when you decide to quit

• http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/quit/iquit.htm
• http://kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/quit_smoking.html
• http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ped/content/ped_10_13x_quitting_smoking.asp?sitearea=ped
• http://familydoctor.org/161.xml
• http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/stop-smoking-products/HA00065

Special concerns for women who smoke

• http://womenshealth.gov/QuitSmoking/important.cfm
• http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=33573
• http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_forwomen/ataglance.htm
• http://www.drugabuse.gov/NIDA_notes/NNvol19N4/Smoking.html

Information on smoking and people of color

• http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_1998/sgr-min-fs-afr.htm
• http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_1998/sgr-min-fs-nat.htm
• http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_1998/sgr-min-fs-asi.htm
• http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_1998/sgr-min-fs-hsp.htm

How to help a smoker quit

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_3x_Help_Someone_Quit.asp?sitearea=PED

You may find the following materials especially useful, but they are just a starting point. There are also many others titles available, so please look further for titles that meet your specific needs.

Government Publications

• Useful information for smokers http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS57282
• Smoke-free home pledge: planning guide for pledge events http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS51580
• La Promesa de un Hogar Libre de Humo: Guía de Planificación para Eventos de la Promesa http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS51582